Combination tool



Dec. 7,1926. Y 1 1,309,732

F. J. MGLAUGHLIN ET AL COMBINATION TooL Filed sept. 12. 1923 Patente-d Dec. 7, 1926.

Unirse s iuarnsv FANK J. lfICLAUGHLIN, 0F DETROIT, ALLAN .f. READER, OE' FERNDALE, AND HAR-RY -R. -MCIIIAHGN, VOF SEbfCKLEY, EENNSYLVANA; SATB IioLAU. TLA@- PATENT AND SATD READER ASSGNORS TO GENERAL MOTORS COROBATTGN, OIF MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

COMBINATION TOOL.

Application filed September 12, 1923. Serial No. 662,233.

This invention relates to combination tools for use 1n connection with automobiles, and

is illustrated as embodied in a single tool` designed to be used either as the removable handle of a jack or in removing a tire from a demountable rim.

As is well known, it is common practice with motorists to use the removable handle of a jack as a tool for use in removing demountable rims and in removing tires from their rims, but such use is more or less diflicult due to the fact that the handle is usually merely a straight flat bar of metal which is not very well adapted for any use other than as a handle.

According to the present invention, the handle is specially constructed to fit it for use in manipulating the tire, and, if desired, for use as a socket wrench in removing and replacing a demountable rim, without sacrificing in any way its utility as a readily re.- movable handle for the ack.

In the embodiment illustrated in the drawings, the removable handle is in the form of a bar having one end offset, as, for example, by being reduced in width to form a portion at an obtuse angle to the main part of the bar, which portionV is adapted to fit in the socket of the operating` handle of the jack and which is also thinned down or beveled to form a prying portion which can be inserted under a tire on a rim. If ythe handle is also to be used as a wrench, the opposite end of the bar may be bent down to form a parallel offset portion perforated to fit over the rim nuts.

The above and other objects and features of the invention, including various desirable particular constructions, will be apparent from the following description of one illustrative embodiment of the invention shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Fig. 1 is a section through a rim and tire showing the improved combination tool used to pry the tire olf the rim;

Fig. 2 is a section through a rim and felly showing the improved combination tool used as a socket wrench to remove or replace the rim nut;

Fig. 3 is a side elevation showing the improved combination tool used as a removablel handle for a'jack; and

ldig. 4 is a perspective of the combination too In the form shown in the drawings, the tool is in the form of a flat bar 10 of metal, which may have one end bent down at 12 and again bent to form a portion 14 generally parallel to the main part ofthe bar and perforated at 16 to form a socket wrench to be used in removing or replacing rim nuts such as shown at 18 in Fig. 2. These rim nuts are commonly used to draw up rim bolts 20 to force a wedge lug 22 against a felly 24tto hold a demountable rim 26. This wrench socket preferably also fits the usual retaining nut threaded on the valve stem.

According to the present invention, the opposite end of the bar is reduced in width, as shown at 28, to form an angularly offset portion constructed and arranged tov lit in the usual socket in the operating handle 30 of a jack 32. This portion is also thinned down or beveled at 34 to adapt it for u se, as shown in Fig. 1, in 7 being forced under a ltire to pry it o the demountable rim, and also for use, if desired,in prying apart the ends of a splitdemountable rim. The tool is also adapted for use, if desired, in removing the screw which fastens the ends of the rim together and which reduced end also adapts it to enter more readily the jack-handle socket.

By the above described construction a single tool is especially fitted for any one of a number of uses, in such a manner that in fitting it for one of these uses itdoes not in any Way detract fromV its adaptation for one of the other uses; that is to say, thinning the tool down for use in removing a tire does not make it any less well adapted for use as invention has been described, it is not our intention to limit its scope to that embodiment o1' otherwise than by the terms of the appended claim.

lVe claim:

A combination tool comprisingI n bnr having a tint intermediate portion merging into un end portion otl'set therefrom angulaily in the same plane as seid intermediate portion :n and reduced in Width to iit in the socket of tures.

FRANK J. MoLAUGI-ILIN.

ALLAN YV. READER. HARRY R. MGMAHON. 

